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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... physics to the early universe: what can particle physics tell us about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... imagined that that it would be the place for me. If you're a prefrosh and ... for it! Here's a stellar guest post from current resident Dan Parker '15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... 't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us ... Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... cabins. Given that 90% of the gifts I received for Christmas was outdoor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... of these actors and actresses look good. And they amaze us with their ... middle school-aged son thought it was mean for someone at the Oscars to be

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes, okay, it's true that you can just show up on the first day for any class ... , they'll probably find room for you. But my universe tends toward disorder

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is ... 's still been done for a couple weeks now :(" And Anonymous wrote, "Why have some of us not recieved our financial aid packages yet? I know I got all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  's definition for a transfer student." Leo, it is not true that rejected MIT ... for why you admitted -- it's because you are awesome. Don't let any ... to send us any scores at all, so I recommend using your four free score

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  for graduate student Y. Graduate student Y wrote this about X ... (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art ... following is a crop of the syllabus we got for studio this semester. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  practices for analysis and design of manufacturing enterprises. Emphasis is on ... include process physics and control, design for manufacturing, and ... gives us chocolate halfway through lecture. Sidebar Commentary: So this

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  . Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction, but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... train for the 15-or-so passengers making the connection. So, I guess I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four organizers, so we have been organizing everything for the past month. Luckily ... years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  first environmentally advanced apartment building in the US. The Solaire ... garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents ... National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  Join us for the 2006 Mystery Hunt, the annual MIT puzzle and sleep ... weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I ... for Gossip, Entertainment News, and Consumer Information Peter Cohn

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  's dream job: she researches Japanese hip-hop for Professor Ian Condry, an ... political events such as the September 11 attacks in the US, the war in Iraq ... interesting aspects: researching information on hip-hop and making website for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  include great textbooks for gifted math students, an active and interactive forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems ... students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me ... perfect match, but it's close enough for me. After that meeting (which

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who ... throughout the meeting -- thank you for sticking it out. I hope the meeting was ... the terrorist attacks on the US. It is often difficult to find good days

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005